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"And a princess' kiss will lift your curse and turn you back into a prince?" the princess said, bending down.

"No," the frog sighed. "I'm a milkmaid."

The princess paused. "Er... I'll get my brother."

"Is he a princess?"

The princess bent down again. "If it's for a good cause..."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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I'm not sure if I understand this one correctly. Is the princess saying that her brother will also be a princess for a good cause? Or is she just deciding to kiss the frog anyway because she'd be doing a favour for a milkmaid for her own reasons?
@trishalynn The princess was not familiar with the idea that a woman could kiss a woman, so assumed it would be a job better suited for her brother. When she realised that wouldn't work, she was prepared to give it a go since it was for a good cause.

Pippin friendica

My lawn is apparently a fungus-producing *machine*!

(6 pictures attached. I rather like the last two, so view on original instance if you don't see those ones.)


Pippin friendica

Last Thursday night I got home (to the new house, having visited the old house) really late, actually so late it was Friday morning. 2:30am, to be precise. The motorcycle ride back was annoying because I had a lot of trouble keeping my visor clear enough to see where I was going. I had to stop and clean everything half way and it wasn't obvious whether it was my glasses steaming up, visor steaming up, pinlock coming away from the visor and steaming up between the two, or just damp on the outside of the visor! In the end it was probably a combo of all those.

Once I got back and took my helmet off I could see just how wet the air is - I even got this bit of video clearly showing droplets just hanging in the beam of my headlights and streaming around in the breeze!

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A simple message for those that didn't get it yet
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I was this many days old when I learned that snuggle resumes are a thing.
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Pippin friendica

I lost a post I was submitting to a supplier's ticketing system today. Wrote it, spent ages rewriting and trying to get it the least embarrasingly awful I could, got second opinions, and finally clicked "submit". And ended up at a login page because my session had timed out, the post having vanished.

In the end I could retype the whole thing with no problem because I'd taken a photo of it on my phone as that was the easiest way to read it to my dad downstairs to get his opinion on it!

Backup-by-photograph. Ha.


AHHH I'm not happy with how tusky loves to delete half-completed posts if you dare switch away before hitting post.


Fluffy paws 🐾
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If you don't think Privacy is one of the most important things right now, watch this.
Every major car manufacturer does this. Every... single... one..
I hate this shit, it's why I've sworn off buying any car new enough to have this bullshit in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiYa0G_SpA

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DID YOU KNOW:
Fluffdragon nose horns have a variety of uses!

This life hack brought to you by:
#FursuitFriday
πŸ“· Zelandeth
πŸͺ‘ @selkiesuits
🌍 ScotiaCon 2018 (yep, a blast from the past - my first year fursuiting!)

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RubyQ, Star Castle Arcade, Juno First, The End and Stratovox will be available as physical cartridges and as digital ROMs in the Champ Games store at the beginning of October https://champ.games/robotwar-2684/f/the-boys-are-back-in-town #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
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Now available the demo of the awesome Miracle Boy in Dragon Land, new game for #AtariST computers https://samsoft.itch.io/miracle-boy-in-dragon-land #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
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Damn, "Stamp on the Ground" is still online.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/510929
I remember watching this when it first came out and absolutely squealing with joy when I saw a bunch of characters from an online comic I was reading at the time.
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@pippin I think that's Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2!
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Pippin friendica

@Renbymon πŸ’œπŸ’›πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ Aah, could be. I think when I searched I may have found the Raiden from Mortal Kombat instead!

(I am so unfamiliar with that whole generation of games - before university I was an Atari-only zone, then I basically stopped playing commercial games completely when I was at university in the 90s and only gradually started again in the last ~15 years, I think about when Portal came out, and even then mostly small indie stuff.)

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I'm definitely enjoying windows becoming linuxier more than I'm enjoying Linux becoming windowsier
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ADisorderlyFashion mastodon (AP)
genuinely curious what you mean by "windows becoming linuxier" because outside of WSL, I don't see it
Patrik mastodon (AP)
Linuxier like more fragmented or as in β€žyou have to watch out to not buy hardware that fixes hardware bugs at driver level"?

The great big feline snowball fight at NordicFuzzcon 2018.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfxnhalYCs&pp=ygUWQ2F0IHNub3diYWxsIGZpZ2h0IG5mYw%3D%3D

#ThrowbackThursday

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Pippin friendica
I've recently (as in the last few days) found myself constantly having to unclench my teeth. I don't know why I keep finding I'm clamping them together for no apparent reason.
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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)
I would suggest that just ... everything, could have something to do with it.
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Pippin friendica
@TundraWolf I would have suggested that too, except that this has only been very recently and… everything has been going on for some years now. :/ Weirdly, I *feel* less stressed than I was a few weeks ago (although after the move there's still a lot to do).
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Teaching "abstinence only" AI safety education
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This (spotted on FB and bringing it back here) #ClimateChange
@bethsawin
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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)
Absolutely this. Having worked with economists (admittedly the lefty ones who stay in academia) I still can’t get over how narrow their field of vision is in terms of the environment and ethics as well as their understanding of human psychology. What will change that? More women and state educated kids studying economics would be a start.

@JugglingWithEggs
Mariana Mazzucato is doing good work, especially these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Mazzucato

Mazzucato, Mariana (2018). The Value of Everything: Makers and Takers in the Global Economy. London: Allen Lane-Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-18882-8. OCLC 1049151753.
Mazzucato, Mariana (2021). Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. London: Allen Lane-Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-41973-1. OCLC 1222804339.

@JugglingWithEggs
If anyone would like to see a completely different set of "rules" written by a different group of people, rules designed to adhere to the laws of physics and biology, preserve the environment, have a better understanding of human psychology, and whose goal is simply to give everyone the best standard of living possible with the most freedom possible, you can check out this link: www.technate.org

Included: Environmentalism, sustainability, equality, freedom, universal health care, free education.

Excluded: Discrimination, profit motive, private enterprise, exploitation, politics, money.


Mad cow disease, also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is when cows ingest contaminated meal, which can be sometimes made up of other cows. It was considered a disaster for the cattle industry in the 1990s.

Anyway, I bring it up because this is basically how LLM slop is starting to work now. All the nutritional grass has been eaten and now what’s left is the contaminated meal made from other LLMs. The LLMs eat the meal, and soon we will have, like Mad LLM disease or something

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One of the things that makes me very happy and proud at work is that, in the absence of regulation, we wouldn't do anything different
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It’s their own wealth, self interest and privilege
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Stoneface Vimes mastodon (AP)
yes that's about it. Money and power, that's all they conserve.
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Noel Kelly mastodon (AP)

@Rory29

The traditional [from the 18th century] British meaning of conservative/tory, is a defender of the right and privileges of the aristocracy.

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I use Firefox despite Mozilla and not because of Mozilla
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Good grief. Starlink v2 satellites are generating 32 times more radio emission than previous generations! This is totally blinding to radio telescopes and will stop us doing science in this part of the spectrum.

BBC News coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo

Journal article: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa51856-24/aa51856-24.html

#astronomy #starlink #losingthesky

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Yknow what saddens me

Flappy bird is back bc some crypto asshole done a legal shenanigan to get it declared an abondened IP, to use it for a crypto garbage mobile app under that IP, against the wishes and without paying the original creator

So, when it's for scamming people, we can actually declare stuff as abandon ware, but not when someone just wants to bury a beloved series or franchise, like the English dub of sailor moon, which you can only pirate now

This is why you can't steal from a corporation, it's called reclamation

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Hug the Tail 🐺

#furry

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Have you ever had a healthcare worker get angry with you for protecting yourself? Have you detected a critical error and had them argue or tell you you’re wrong?

I had a terrifying experience this week where one of my homecare nurses tried to administer insulin. I’m NOT a diabetic. I’m on nursing services for blood pressure checks and IV saline because I’m dangerously hypotensive.

I told them β€œI think you have the wrong patient I’m not on insulin” and they became very upset. They tried to force it on me and told me my file would be noted as β€œnoncompliance” and I might lose the homecare services.

I held my ground and asked them to double check the file as they clearly had me mixed up with another patient.

They finally did - albeit through sighs and eyerolls. They didn’t apologize - they just left and said the next nurse could deal with my issues.

This js terrifying. Many people on homecare are elderly and/or not mentally competent and can’t always check and double check what they’re being given. What if I had been extra woozy or had passed out before they arrived? What happens if you administer insulin to someone on alot of meds and not diabetic?

More importantly - WHY are we not trusted to know our own bodies? Women, disabled people, marginalized individuals… it’s almost always the same experience. We’re told we’re wrong and threatened with loss of care, non compliance, psych holds or worse.

Is the fact that I demand they wear a respirator before entering playing a role? Could it be that they’re overworked and frequently sick because of unmitigated COVID spread?

We need masks and clean air in healthcare NOW. We can’t keep infecting and reinfecting healthcare workers and expecting that there won’t be consequences.

We absolutely shouldn’t be infecting high risk patients who are relying on them for life saving care.

If you’re a HCW who stopped masking - please start again. For your health and the health of your patients.

If a patient tells you a certain medication or procedure will be harmful - listen to them. We know our bodies & deserve to be respected.

I may write an essay about this experience when I’m less exhausted and angry. In the meantime you can read one of my other examples of medical gaslighting & misogyny … one which very nearly cost me my life:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare

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At my last doctor's visit the HCW tried to make me unmask for an EKG!! "Your mask restricts airflow so the machine might now work."

Miss, airflow has NOTHING to do with this.

Before that, my psychiatrist tried to imply I was paranoid/irrationally anxious for still masking. "Are you afraid of covid?"

Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
@cferdinandi I think my response to that would be "I'm not afraid of it, but I try to prevent avoidable health issues - in the same way I keep my fingers clear of the blade when I'm cutting food for dinner."
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Ikani mastodon (AP)
I'm a fan of Incel Caminos, but Deploreans is good too!
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Hello!

30 trillion cells in my body are human, whatever that means, and 38 trillion are various bacteria! There are a bunch of viruses too which are currently impacting my functionality!

I am 68 trillion microorganisms in a trench coat which results in a sort of self-propelling, self-replicating digestion tube, but I am paid to act as if I am a clean, rational, thinking machine!

This is very stressful for all 68 trillion of us, so sometimes we complain about it on the internet.

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Ran into the adorable Ponyfox as Freckles last night at #eurofurence #ef28
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Evi SnowMew mastodon (AP)
@avon_deer thank you! I think the official reply is β€œit’s complicated, but slowly moving in the right direction”. :)
Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
Have a great time at the event

"David Lammy says climate change is more urgent threat than terrorism or Putin"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-lammy-climate-change-terrorism-putin-urgent-b2614258.html

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Content warning: Mozilla thing

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You don't need to have somehow "known" that you were nonbinary as a child if that's not how things went for you.

There are many ways to learn about yourself, and all of them are legitimate.

Some flowers bloom in the spring, others in the summer, and some can even push up through the snow.

You have (and will) change and learn in your own time, which is always going to be the right time.

#nonbinarypositivity #nonbinarypride #nonbinary #questioning #genderquestioning

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I left the Microsoft world back in ~ 2011 to be a full time Ruby, Rails, & Web dev. It was such a relief to be operating in a world of open source libraries and frameworks.

Now I see entire companies built upon open source stacks using (Microsoft) TypeScript, running in (Microsoft) Visual Studio Code, collaborating on (Microsoft) GitHub, using (Microsoft) AI coding tools that plagiarise open source code, and running Linux _inside_ (Microsoft) Windows with WSL.

What the hell happened, hackers???

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mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit
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Cy ActivityPub
An inflatable dinosaur filled with my drinking water!
Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
At least the inflatable dinosaurs would be fun, this "AI" focus is just trash.

Would the news media please stop using the word 'controversy' when they mean 'lies'.
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